The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-12-08
so altitudinous, and so overwhelming as
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so altitudinous, and SO Overwhelming as
the question, ''Is thy heart right?''
Or is it a domestic question? Is it
something about father, or mother, or
companion, or son, or daughter that you
think is comparable with this question in
importance? Do you not realize that by
universal and inexorable law ali these re-
lations will be broken up? Your father
will be gone, your mother will be gone,
your companion will be gone, your child
will be gone, you viii be gone, and then
this supernal question will begin to har-
vest its chief gains, or deplore its worst
losses, roll up into its mightiest magni-
tude, or sweep its vast circles. What
difference now does it make to Napoleon
III whether he tril mphed or surrendered
at Sedan? whether he lived at the TUiler
les or at Chisclhlrst? whether he was
emperor or exile? They laid him out in
his coffin in the dress of a field marshal.
Did that give him any better chance for
the next world than if he had been laid
out in a plain shroud? And soon
to us what will be the difference
whether in this world we rode or
walked, were bowed to or maltreated,
were appiauded OF hissed at, We're well
coined in or kicked out, while laying hold
of every moment OF the great future, and
burning in all the splendor OF grief, and
overarching and undergoing all time and
all eternity, is the plain, simple, prac
teal, thrilling, agonizing, overwhelming
question, SIS thy heart right?'' Have
| you within you a repenting heart, an ex-
pectant heart? If not, | must write upon
your soul what George Whitefield wrote
upon the window pane with his diamond
ring. He tarried in an elegant house
| over night, but found that there was no
| God recognized in that house. Before he
| left his room in the morning. with his
ring he wrote upon the window pane.
Zone thing thou lackest." After the
guest was gone, the housewife came up
and looked at the window, and saw the
inscription, and called her husband and
her children; and God, through that
ministry of the window glass, brought
them all to Jesus. Though you may
today be surrounded by comforts and
luxuries, and feel that you have need of
nothing, if you are not the children of
| God, with the signet ring of Christ love,
! let me inscribe upon your souls, Zone
thing thou laokest." I pray you that,
whatever else you may miss, you. may
not miss heaven. 1t is too bright home
to lose. Your soul has been bought at
too dear a price. preach to you of the
blood that cleanseth from all sin. Casting
all your sins behind you, I beg of you to
start this morning for the kingdom.
''Yes," you say, 81 will start, but not
now" William III made proclamation,
when there was a revolution in the north
of Scotland, that all who came and took
the oath of allegiance by the 31st of De-
cember should lie pardOned. MacIan, a
chieftain of prominent clan, resolved to
return with the rest of the rebels, but had
some pride in being the very last one
that should take the oath. He postponed
starting for this purpose until two days
before the expiration Of the term. A
snow storm inpeded his way, and before
he got up to take the oath and receive a
pardon from the throne, the time was up
and past. While the others were set
free, MacIan was miserably put to death.
He started too late and arrived too late.
In like manner some Of you are in pros
pect of losing forever the amnesty of the
Gospel. Many Of you are going to be
forever too late. Remember the irrepar-
able mistake of MacIan